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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 54

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And when he had chopped her up into little pieces, he threw them into the tub, washed them, rinsed them, and then put them together bit by bit, exactly as the old man had done, expecting to see all the pieces unite with each other.

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**Who acts:** Pope, old man, pieces · **What happens:** chop up, throw, wash, rinse, put, do · **To what, where:** Princess, little pieces, pieces, tub · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pope, old man, pieces), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:59:54
# text = And when he had chopped her up into little pieces, he threw them into the tub, washed them, rinsed them, and then put them together bit by bit, exactly as the old man had done, expecting to see all the pieces unite with each other.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	chopped	chop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	tub	tub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	washed	wash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	rinsed	rinse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
27	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	together	together	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
34	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
35	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
39	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	expecting	expect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	advcl	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	xcomp	_	_
45	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	47	det:predet	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nsubj	_	_
48	unite	unite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	ccomp	_	_
49	with	with	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	48	obl	_	_
51	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chop up** | past · perfect | Pope | Princess |  |  |  | into little pieces *result* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent she=Patient into piece=Result |
| 2 | **throw** | past | Pope | pieces *= piece* |  |  |  | into the tub *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer they=Theme into tub=Result |
| 3 | **wash** | past | Pope *not said here* | pieces *= piece* |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **rinse** | past | Pope *not said here* | pieces *= piece* |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source |
| 5 | **put** | infinitive |  | pieces *= piece* |  |  | then | by bit; bit *obl* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme by bit=Destination |
| 6 | **do** | past · perfect | the old man |  |  |  |  | exactly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **expect** | gerund | the old man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 8 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the old man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 9 | **unite** | infinitive | all pieces |  |  |  |  | with each | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with each=Co-Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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